Active Learning

Utilizing Tablet Laptops

Active learning refers to a range of activities in which students are not passively listening to the instructor, but instead engaging in one or more of the following cognitive processes: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. In the classroom, active-learning can improve student learning and retention of content, help students transform factual information into useable knowledge, and ensure that students experience a variation in pedagogical methods that can help them stay engaged in class.

Courses

The Teaching Center has collaborated with instructors teaching the following courses, to develop active learning methods utilzing flexible technology: